Flying down to Rio, Radio Pictures
Type
Label
Flying down to Rio, Radio Pictures
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Intended audience
Not rated
Main title
Flying down to Rio
Medium
DVD
Oclc number
175294771
Responsibility statement
Radio Pictures
Runtime
89
Summary
This film, containing the first of many Fred Astaire - Ginger Rogers partnerships, concerns a troupe of entertainers stranded in Rio. Songs include "The Carioca," "Orchids in the Moonlight," and the title song. Notable for a brilliantly photographed finale with chorus girls on the wings of flying airplanes, the movie was the musical that broke with the rather contrived Busby Berkeley production and moved toward a closer integration of musical and narrative elements. Astaire's dance numbers come not as interruptions but as extensions of the plot
Technique
live action
Contributor
- Caldwell, Anne, 1867-1936
- Hanemann, H. W., Henry William, 1895-1968
- Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-1983
- Astaire, Fred
- Hume, Cyril, 1900-1966
- Gelsey, Erwin, 1900-1988
- Raymond, Gene
- Youmans, Vincent, 1898-1946
- Warner Home Video (Firm)
- Roulien, Raul, 1905-
- Rogers, Ginger, 1911-1995
- Freeland, Thornton, 1898-1987
- Turner Entertainment Co
Subject
Mapped to
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Contributor13
- Caldwell, Anne, 1867-1936
- Hanemann, H. W., Henry William, 1895-1968
- Del Rio, Dolores, 1905-1983
- Astaire, Fred
- Hume, Cyril, 1900-1966
- Gelsey, Erwin, 1900-1988
- Raymond, Gene
- Youmans, Vincent, 1898-1946
- Warner Home Video (Firm)
- Roulien, Raul, 1905-
- Rogers, Ginger, 1911-1995
- Freeland, Thornton, 1898-1987
- Turner Entertainment Co
- Genre3
- Subject8
- Mapped to1